Digital Meld co-founder Brad Groux has joined the Applied Industries Committee at the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), part of the Linux Foundation. He will bring a focus on oilfield servicing, logistics and heavy haul, construction, engineering, and program management.
The goal is practical: help people who wear coveralls and PPE for a living use AI and automation to make their jobs, and their lives, easier, safer, and more efficient.
Bringing the people doing the work into the conversation
At Digital Meld, feedback from the people we serve helps shape what we build. Understanding how they work, where they encounter friction, and what would make a meaningful difference guides our approach to AI and automation.
That feedback will also shape the perspective Brad brings to the committee. People working in the field, moving freight, maintaining equipment, and delivering projects need a voice in how this technology develops and gets put to use. Their experience helps identify which problems deserve attention and what a useful solution needs to do.
Our participation through Brad connects that customer-informed perspective with the wider open-source community. The aim is to make AI more useful to the industries and people Digital Meld serves.
A conversation that started at AGNTCon + MCPCon
Brad met Andrew Nolan of Microsoft at AGNTCon + MCPCon, where their conversation included the role of blue-collar and field workers in the agentic web. Andrew invited him to take part in the committee.
Thank you to Andrew for the invitation and for making room for that perspective. Our AGNTCon + MCPCon recap covers the sessions and community conversations that led into this work.
Open source takes a village
Brad’s time with the OpenClaw team and his contributions to projects such as Buzz have cemented his dedication to open source. Building useful software depends on people sharing what they learn, reviewing changes, reporting problems, and helping others contribute.
It takes a village. Industry practitioners bring knowledge of the work. Maintainers and contributors bring experience building and improving the tools. Customers help show whether those tools address a real need. Each perspective helps the others make better decisions.
At Digital Meld, we also share our AI-Native Operating Framework for review and contribution. It describes how people and AI can work with clear ownership, authority, evidence, and handoffs while keeping the operating method independent of a particular tool.
Help shape the work
We look forward to contributing and learning alongside the AAIF community. If your team works in these industries, we want to hear where AI and automation could reduce friction, what makes adoption difficult, and what needs to work better for the people doing the job.
Bring Digital Meld a workflow and help shape what we build next.